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Disseminate vs Deploy - What's the difference?

disseminate | deploy |

In transitive terms the difference between disseminate and deploy

is that disseminate is to sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, and errors for growth and propagation, such as seed while deploy is to prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use.

As a noun deploy is

deployment.

disseminate

English

Verb

(disseminat)
  • To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, and errors for growth and propagation, such as seed
  • To become scattered.
  • The values of the human rights movement have disseminated throughout the world.

    Synonyms

    * spread * circulate * propagate

    Coordinate terms

    * promulgate

    Derived terms

    * dissemination

    deploy

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To prepare and arrange (usually military unit or units) for use.
  • "Deploy two units of infantry along the enemy's flank," the general ordered.
  • (intransitive) To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
  • He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy .
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  • At first she thought she would be embarrassed that she had deployed her air bag, that the other expert skiers she was with, more than a dozen of them, would have a good laugh at her panicked overreaction.
  • (computing) to install, test and implement a computer system or application.
  • The process for the deployment scenario includes: building a master installation of the operating system, creating its image and deploying the image onto a destination computer.
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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (military, dated) deployment